Data from the Office for Rail and Road has been released detailing passenger numbers at train stations across Birmingham last year. The most used station in the UK is Liverpool Street, overtaking Waterloo - but today we ask which stations in Birmingham are the most busy.
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00:00 The fifth most used rail station here in Birmingham is University train station in Edgebaston.
00:07 This station is the only mainline station built specifically to serve a university,
00:12 but also serves the Women's Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital. It saw around 2.6 million
00:18 passengers last year.
00:21 Snowhill is the fourth most regularly used railway station within Birmingham. Located
00:26 on Cornwall Row after opening in 1952, it is one of the three main stations in the city
00:32 centre. Snowhill mostly serves local lines throughout the Midlands and served around
00:37 2.7 million passengers in 2023.
00:42 Then coming in at number three it's Birmingham International. This railway station in the
00:47 borough of Solihull primarily serves the airport as well as the National Exhibition Centre
00:52 and Resorts World here in Birmingham. The station served somewhere around 4.1 million
00:58 people last year.
01:00 Moorhill station takes second place. This iconic station located in the city centre
01:05 just up the road from Selfridges is a major hub for travellers, both locally and for longer
01:11 distance services via the Chiltern mainline. This particularly popular station saw around
01:17 5.5 million entries or exits in that year.
01:22 And of course next to where I'm standing right now, Birmingham Newstree station is
01:26 at the top spot for most used station with 30,726,280 passengers last year. It's the
01:35 11th busiest station in the UK and the most busy outside of London. It's been here since
01:41 1854 and it could be argued to be the true centre of the city but perhaps most importantly
01:47 it's home to Aussie, Birmingham's much loved animatronic bull.
01:57 Birmingham boasts a major transport system being in the heart of the country and the
02:01 growth in the region has led to major updates to the rail system. In fact, three new potential
02:06 stations may be set to open, further expanding the system. These three locations would be
02:12 Castle Bromwich, restoring a station closed in 1968, Coventry East on the line linking
02:18 Coventry and Rugby and another near Tetonal, all which would exist on existing railway
02:23 lines. This proposed station development funding is from the City Region Sustainable Transport
02:28 Settlement awarded to the West Midlands Combined Authority by the Department for Transport.
02:35 This would come after the opening of three new stations that have already been approved
02:39 for lighter this year in Moseley Village, King Seath and Pineapple Road in Sturchley.
02:44 The £1.7 billion Midland Rail Hub scheme seeks to expand rail infrastructure, promising
02:50 to be truly transformative in the area it serves and may be a major boon to lowering
02:55 car usage and achieving the government's plans for net zero carbon.
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